Carpet-stretcher



N-PETERS WIDTO-LITHDGRANER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED vSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE MOSMAN, OF CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAnPET-STRETCHER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,853, dated January2, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MosMAN, of Ohicopee, county of Hampden, andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Oarpet-Stretchers; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing specification and drawings represent the same.

The drawings and letters of reference marked thereon indicate like partsin each of the figures.

The nature of this improvement in carpetstretchers will be fullyunderstood from the accompanyin g specification and drawings.

The object desired to be attained by this invention is to produce astretcher which will both hold the carpet and the tack by which it is tobe secured in place where it is desirable to fasten it, and so that thestretcher can be as easily drawn away after the tack has been driven asthough this improvement had not been attached thereto, thus holding thetack in an erect position and in the proper place to be driven.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a face view of thisimprovement. Fig. 2 is a sectional edge view. Fig. 3 is a view of thestretcher-plate as now in common use. Figs. 4 and 5 show a face view ofthe tack-holders. Figs. 6 and 7 show the springs by which the holdersare held in position.

The springs a and a. are arranged on the face-plate of the stretcher, asshown in Fig'. 2, directly underneath the holders o, the ends of whichare bent up, so that the ends so bent of the spring a may pass upthrough the openings cZ in the holders c into the holes e of the holdersc', and the ends of the spring' a enter directly into the holes al ofthe holders c. The back ends of these holders are secured by and workupon pins or screws n on the plate k.

The plate k is provided with teeth on its front edge, for the purpose oftaking firm hold of the edge of the carpet, and also with a shank toreceive a handle, o.

The holders may be made to operate with one side ixed stationary, whilethe other yields to receive the tack and to release itself' from thetack when partially driven.

The stretcher may be made with one pair of holders, and, perhaps, inpractice it may be found best to do so. The design or particular objectof two pairs of holders is to hold the tack erect, which it is believedmay be accomplished by one pair, and it may be done by having one partfixed and only one part made to yield to receive the tack.

By the use of this invention the operator inserts the point of thetackinto the opening a' provided therefor in the holders o and the teeth ofthe stretcher into the edge of the carpet, and pushes it to the desiredplace in the usual way, and drives the tack held in the stretcher. Inthis way I am enabled to hold the carpet and drive the tack directly atthe point where it is stretched, and to do so with greater ease andfacility and less damage to the carpet.

I believe I have thus shown the nature, construct-ion, and operation ofthis improvement so as to enable a person skilled to make and use thesame therefrom.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The holders o and springs a or their equivalents, in combination withthe plate lc, substantially as and for the purpose described.

GEO. MOSMAN. lL. s]

Witnesses:

D. F. iWIosMAN, S. G. SoUTHwoRrn.

